HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament
HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament
HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament
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APPENDIX F<br />
ROYAL ASSENT BY COMMISSION<br />
At the time appointed for the Royal Assent, if the House is sitting, the<br />
House adjourns during pleasure to enable the Lords Commissioners to<br />
robe. The Lords Commissioners enter the Chamber, and the Commons<br />
are summoned (see appendix C pages 239–240). They arrive with their<br />
Speaker. Any supply bills that may be ready for Royal Assent are brought<br />
up by the Clerk of the House of Commons, to whom they have been<br />
previously returned. The Clerk of the <strong>Parliament</strong>s receives them from the<br />
Speaker at the Bar, and brings them to the Table, bowing to the Lords<br />
Commissioners. The Lord Chancellor, remaining seated and covered,<br />
then says:<br />
“My Lords and Members of the House of Commons,<br />
Her Majesty, not thinking fit to be personally present here at this time,<br />
has been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the<br />
Great Seal, and thereby given Her Royal Assent to certain Acts [and<br />
Measures] which have been agreed upon by both Houses of<br />
<strong>Parliament</strong>, the Titles whereof are particularly mentioned, and by the<br />
said Commission has commanded us to declare and notify Her Royal<br />
Assent to the said Acts [and Measures] in the presence of you, the<br />
Lords and Commons assembled for that purpose, which Commission<br />
you will now hear read.”<br />
The Commission is read (see appendix C page 239).<br />
When this has been done, the Lord Chancellor says:<br />
“In obedience to Her Majesty’s Commands, and by virtue of the<br />
Commission which has been now read, we do declare and notify to<br />
you, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in <strong>Parliament</strong><br />
assembled, that Her Majesty has given Her Royal Assent to the Acts<br />
[and Measures] in the Commission mentioned, and the Clerks are<br />
required to pass the same in the usual form and words.”<br />
The Clerk of the <strong>Parliament</strong>s and the Clerk of the Crown then rise and<br />
stand at the Despatch Boxes on either side of the Table, bowing to the<br />
Lords Commissioners as they reach their places. From the temporal side<br />
the Clerk of the Crown reads out the short title of each bill in turn. As<br />
soon as each title has been read, both Clerks bow to the Lords<br />
Commissioners. The Clerk of the <strong>Parliament</strong>s then turns towards the Bar,<br />
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